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United States Patent | 5,339,387 |
Frankel | August 16, 1994 |
An apparatus and method for electronically generating colorized characters for display by an external video display device wherein a user can specify one or more characters to be displayed, one or more curves, and one or more colorization functions which specify the colors of a pixel of the character to be displayed at a distance defined by a distance function. The apparatus reads the character defining data for the character to be displayed and generates and outputs electronic colorization data for each pixel of the character by electronically calculating the colorization function as a function of the distance defined by the distance function for the specified curve or curves.
Inventors: | Frankel; Carl B. (San Francisco, CA) |
Assignee: | Abekas Video Systems, Inc. (Redwood City, CA) |
Appl. No.: | 783633 |
Filed: | October 24, 1991 |
Current U.S. Class: | 345/601 |
Intern'l Class: | G06F 015/00 |
Field of Search: | 395/131,133,134,162 340/701,703 358/81,82,76,78 345/22,23 |
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